Revision units 1-4

Revision units 1-4

Future with going to

• USE: for plans, intentions and predictions based on present evidence.

• FORM: verb to be + going to + infinitive

• "It's going to rain"

Future with will

• USE: decisions made at the time of speaking, promises, and predictions based on no evidence

• FORM: will + infinitive

• "They won't live here in the future"

Multiple Choice

I'm going to work harder next year

• Prediction

• Intention

Multiple Choice

I'll give you back your DVD next week

• Promise

• Plan

Multiple Choice

-"There are three tickets left to the movie."

-"I'll have one"

• Plan

• Decision

Present continuous for future arrangements

USE: future arrangements and fixed plans

FORM: Verb to be + verb-ing

" I'm having a test tomorrow"

Present continuous for future arrangements

Remember to use adverbials like NEXT WEEK, AT THE WEEKEND, LATER to show that the activity is in the future

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

• WE USE COMPARATIVES + THAN TO COMPARE TWO THINGS "Computers are bigger than cellphones"

• WE USE AS + ADJECTIVE + AS TO SAY THAT TWO THINGS ARE THE SAME AND NOT AS + ADJECTIVE + AS TO SAY THAT TWO THINGS ARE DIFFERENT. "Sleeping is (not) as enjoyable as taking a shower"

• WE USE SUPERLATIVES TO COMPARE MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE OR THINGS. "Math is the worst subject in the school"

Spelling rules

• After one-syllable adjective we ad -er / -est

• After -e we add -r /-st

• After one vowel and one consonant, we double the final consonant and add -er/-est

• For two or more syllable adj. we add more/most + the adj.

• After two syllable adj. ending in -y we change it to -i and add er- /-est

Multiple Choice

Stephen isn't as old as me

• Stephen is younger than me

• Sthephen is older than me

Multiple Choice

This film is _____ film I've ever seen

• duller

• the dullest

Multiple Choice

I think that my test was ___yours.

• better than

• best

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE WITH TIME ADVERBIALS (EVER-NEVER-ALREADY-JUST-YET)

• JUST: a short time ago

• ALREADY: emphasize something has happened before now

• YET: negative and questions to mean up to now

• NEVER: to mean at no time in my life

• EVER: in questions to mean at any time in your life

FORM

• We put the adverbs just-already- ever and never before the main verb

• "I have never cook" " I've just finished"

• we put YET at the end of negative sentences and questions. "Have you finished yet?"

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PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND PAST SIMPLE

• P. perfect simple: the time period is unfinished

• Past simple: the time period is finished

• Common problems: we can use some expressions with both tenses: Have you seen Ben this morning? (it is still the morning) Did you see Ben this morning? (it is later now in the day)

Multiple Select

We use the____ tense to refer to finished time

• Present perfect simple

• simple past

Multiple Select

We use the ____ tense when the past still affects the present

• SImple past

• Prsent perfect simple

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES WITH WHO-WHICH-THAT-WHOSE-WHERE

• We use it to give essential information about the person, place, or thing we are talking about.

• In conversation, we usually replace who or which with that.

• FORM: we can omit who, which or that when they refer to the object of the sentence "this is the girl (who/that) i love"

Multiple Choice

That is the house___I was born

• that

• whose

• where

Multiple Choice

They are the toys____ I gave to my son

• Omit

• which

• that

• all options

Multiple Choice

She is the teacher ____ brother is in jail

• that

• whose

• who

TOO + ADJ/ADV + TO

NOT + ADJ/ADV+ ENOUGH TO

• We use it to say that something is not possible

• "He is too young to join this class"

• "He isn't old enough to join this class"

• We use adj/adv + enough + to, to say that something is possible "She is good enough to win the race"

Multiple Choice

The place wasn't ............. to play a match, so everybody went home.

• enough big

• too big

• big enough

Multiple Choice

He wasn't tall ........... to climb over the wall.

• too

• too much

• too many

• enough

Multiple Choice

She speaks _____ quietly to be an actress

• too

• enough

Too many- too much- not enough

• Too many: plural, countable nouns

• Too much: uncountable nouns

• Not enough: countable and uncountable nouns

Multiple Select

There's too _____ polution in this city

• much

• many

Multiple Select

There's too____ people in the streets

• much

• many

Multiple Select

____ there enough food for everyone?

• Is

• Are

Multiple Select

There____(not) enough places to go.

• aren't

• isn't

Multiple Select

There's too _____ polution in this city

• much

• many

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS WITH FOR AND SINCE

• We use this tense to talk about activities that started in the past and which are still happening now or which have very recently finished and have a present result.

• We use FOR with a period of time to show how long the situation has existed

• We use SINCE with a point in time to show when the situation or action started

• "I've known him for a long time" "I've known him since Friday"

Multiple Choice

Kevin has been looking for a job ............... he left school.

• since

• for

Multiple Choice

I'm tired of waiting.

We've been sitting here ................. an hour.

• since

• for

Multiple Choice

Paul has lived in Brazil ................. ten years.

• for

• since

Multiple Choice

It's been raining ....................... lunchtime.

• since

• for

Multiple Choice

It's been raining ....................... lunchtime.

• since

• for

USE TO

• It is used to talk about habits and states that are no longer true

• We can not use it to talk about thing which only happened once in the past.

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Open Ended

Say two things that you used to do in the past

ECHO QUESTIONS

• We use these questions to show interest and that we are paying attention to the speaker. It is not a real question.

• They are formed by the correct auxiliary verb and subject

• The negative form of I am is AREN'T I

Multiple Choice

She is a good student.

• Is she?

• Does she?

Multiple Choice

My girlfriend broke up with me.

• Did you?

• Did she?

• Is she?

Multiple Choice

She's met someone else

• Did she?

• Is she?

• Has she?